Linux-audit Digest, Vol 27, Issue 2

[Steve Grubb]

On Monday 11 December 2006 14:20, Thomas, Daniel J. wrote:
> Looking at Redhat's website, it seems that they have an
> audit-1.2.9-1.el5.x86_64.rpm available for download.  It's currently listed
> as beta and it looks like they're rolling it out with EL5, but right now it
> is listed as a package for EL4.  Is that a possibility?

No, the kernels and userspace pieces are incompatible. The transport mechanism 
is different, some operators aren't recognized by old kernels, and resulting 
record formats are slightly different which would cause ausearch/aureport to 
miss things.

1.0.x is for RHEL4
1.3 and higher for RHEL5.

-Steve